Anyone use the Freehand Kelton Hollower?
 

I'm not talking about the captured Rube-Goldberg system. This is just a
huge scraper shaft with a bolted on tip that fits in the same handle as
the bowl saver.

It's big and beefy, but when I mounted the toolpost in a 14" Jet lathe,
the yoke was about 1-1/2" above the center. [Yeah -- It was bottomed in
the banjo.]

That can't be right, can it? You wouldn't want to work with the handle
pointing skyward...

Is this thing just made for bigger lathes, or does the toolpost come in
different lengths? [Salesperson was utterly unclued.]

The toolshaft only seemed to have two positions in the yoke: 90 degrees
rotated [the scraper blade trailing or leading?]. In the clockwise
rotated position, it looked like a good catch might roll and lift it
out of the yoke. It seems like a sloppy fit anyway between the shaft
and yoke -- couldn't the "goalposts" have been closer together?

Why is the yoke extention six-sided? Do you set up the yoke in a
non-vertical position?

Any info and links appreciated!

luck,
-j

P.S. DAGS, but nothing yet.

Anyone use the Freehand Kelton Hollower?
 

I don't know about the hollowing system, but the coring system does
have two different posts, Mine came with a short post, and it wouldn't
fit in my Powermatic, unless I wanted to cut below center. For
hollowing, you can be slightly above center, but you don't want to be
below center. It should be fairly easy to cut some off,
robo hippy

Anyone use the Freehand Kelton Hollower?
 

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:57:54 -0500, JoanD'arcRoast
wrote:

Check with Kelton... they're very good at answering emails and questions about
their stuff..

(I have a Jet 1442 and the coring support fits fine... but the 2 generic tool
rests that I've bought online at different places were both too long and had to
have about an inch cut off the post)

I'm not talking about the captured Rube-Goldberg system. This is just a
huge scraper shaft with a bolted on tip that fits in the same handle as
the bowl saver.

It's big and beefy, but when I mounted the toolpost in a 14" Jet lathe,
the yoke was about 1-1/2" above the center. [Yeah -- It was bottomed in
the banjo.]

That can't be right, can it? You wouldn't want to work with the handle
pointing skyward...

Is this thing just made for bigger lathes, or does the toolpost come in
different lengths? [Salesperson was utterly unclued.]

The toolshaft only seemed to have two positions in the yoke: 90 degrees
rotated [the scraper blade trailing or leading?]. In the clockwise
rotated position, it looked like a good catch might roll and lift it
out of the yoke. It seems like a sloppy fit anyway between the shaft
and yoke -- couldn't the "goalposts" have been closer together?

Why is the yoke extention six-sided? Do you set up the yoke in a
non-vertical position?

Any info and links appreciated!

luck,
-j

P.S. DAGS, but nothing yet.



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